{"id":565290,"date":"2021-06-16T10:52:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T14:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=565290"},"modified":"2021-06-16T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T14:52:06","slug":"russia-conducts-largest-military-exercises-since-cold-war-just-before-biden-putin-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-conducts-largest-military-exercises-since-cold-war-just-before-biden-putin-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Conducts Largest Military Exercises Since Cold War Just Before Biden-Putin Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-conducts-largest-military-exercises-since-cold-war-just-before-biden-putin-meeting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=565290&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jb-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Shortly before President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down in Switzerland for their first face-to-face meeting, Russian warships began conducting the largest military exercises since the Cold War off the coast of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exercises, conducted by the Russian navy in the Pacific Ocean 300 to 500 miles west of Hawaii, include long-range bombers, surface ships and anti-submarine aircraft,\u201d The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/16\/russia-provokes-biden-in-largest-military-exercises-since-cold-war\/\">reported<\/a>. The exercises prompted the U.S. Air Force to scramble F-22 stealth fighters.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials said the Russian planes did not enter the Air Defense Identification Zone and were not intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>A few days before the U.S.-Russia bilateral, Biden was asked about Putin, whom he had earlier called a \u201ckiller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a weekend interview, Vladimir Putin laughed at the suggestion that you had called him a \u2018killer.\u2019 Is that still your belief, sir, that he is a killer?\u201d CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny asked.<\/p>\n<p>Biden laughed, then said, \u201cTo answer the first question \u2014 I\u2019m laughing too. They actually \u2014 I \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zeleny broke in: \u201cSo he is a killer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden said: \u201cWell, look, I mean, he has made clear that \u2014 the answer is: I believe he has, in the past, essentially acknowledged that he was \u2014 there were certain things that he would do or did do. But look, when I was asked that question on air, I answered it honestly. But it\u2019s not much of a \u2014 I don\u2019t think it matters a whole lot, in terms of this next meeting we\u2019re about to have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Things got off to a rocky start at the bilat, held at the Villa La Grange, an 18th-century mansion located in a park in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was chaos at the start of this bilateral meeting,\u201d said Fox News\u2019 John Roberts, a longtime White House reporter. \u201cWe\u2019re supposed to have what\u2019s called a pool spray where press from both the United States and Russia come in what\u2019s supposed to be an orderly fashion and listen to the two leaders as they begin their bilateral meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there was a lot of pushing and shoving that was going on, only half of the American pool got in. Our camera got in, but the audio didn\u2019t, which is why you really couldn\u2019t hear the two of them talk. And then when the American press started, as tradition holds, shouting questions at the two leaders, Russian security got involved and started pushing everybody out of the room, even grabbing on to the clothing of some of the Americans as they tried to clear them out,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a grand tradition for the [White House press] wranglers, as they\u2019re called, to say, \u2018Thank you press, get out, it\u2019s time to get out,\u2019 but the United States Secret Service never puts a hand on the American press, unless of course they were to present some sort of a threat. But for the Russian security forces to grab the American press and try to shove them out of the room, that\u2019s going beyond the line. But I will say, these things are always crazy,\u201d said Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>Another reporter covering the scrum said much the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not being allowed in because everyone is pushing and shoving,\u201d Anita Kumar, a reporter for Politico, wrote in a pool report. \u201cAuthorities have threatened to keep us out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a later pool report, Kumar wrote: \u201cThere\u2019s an extremely chaotic scene at the door. Both pools being denied access. At 1:39 pm, part of the pool was ushered in but we were pushed and shoved by security officials and Russian media. Poolers tripped over cords.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down in Switzerland for their first face-to-face meeting, Russian warships began conducting the largest military exercises since the Cold &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280421,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jb-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Russia Conducts Largest Military Exercises Since Cold War Just Before Biden-Putin Meeting","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jb-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Russia Conducts Largest Military Exercises Since Cold War Just Before Biden-Putin Meeting","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}